Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1903 — State Board of Health Report [ARTICLE]

State Board of Health Report

The Indiana State Board of Health report for May is just out. The number of deaths fn the state during the month was 2,502. Consumption, as usual, was the most fatal nisease, with 325 deaths. Paeuuionia caused 209 deaths, cancer 80, typhoid fever 40, influeuzi 36, violence 142. Smallpox, next to rheumatism was the most prevalent disease, with 579 oases, but only 10 deaths. The epidemic of that disease which caused so much trouble and financial loss in Rensselaer, during the month, outs uo figure in the report, further than that Jasper oounty is credited with 30 cases and one death. Not all of these 30 occurred in Rensselaer, however. The total deaths in Jasper county, from all oau3es, was 16, of which number 5 occurred in Rensselaer -- -